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After YouTube tightened its rules on content related to eating disorders and binge eating, a wave of demonetizations and mass video deletions has swept through Korea’s mukbang YouTuber community. One streamer with roughly 440,000 subscribers had monetization cut off, while another deleted 339 of their 667 videos. On 5ch, posters raised concerns about vomiting behind the scenes and hidden food disposal in mukbang content, with some arguing Japanese mukbang streamers and TV shows should face the same restrictions — while others pointed to viewer demand and the health changes seen in past popular streamers, turning the thread into a broader debate over the nature of mukbang content itself.
Wed 9/23, 7:27 AM
YouTube has strengthened its enforcement of rules around content related to eating disorders and binge eating, and the fallout is spreading among Korean mukbang and diet YouTubers, with monetization stoppages and video deletions piling up.
A streamer with about 440,000 subscribers had their monetization suspended, while another YouTuber deleted 339 of their 667 videos.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
What's wrong with that?
At least read the source
It causes dehydration
And depletes your minerals too
While they're at it, strip cooking channels of monetization too lolol
Those channels are gonna get shut down
Don't give money to people who dump kittens on a riverbank themselves, walk off a bit, then start filming and fake it: "Whaaat?! There's a kitten here!"
There's a lot of that type too
Forget riverbanks — one poster even threw one into the ocean and filmed it drowning
Liars who throw up and won't even admit it
Wasn't it actually a body double doing the eating?
Like, at the train station?
Ban it on TV as well
It all started as a freak show putting bulimic girls on display
What's even the point of watching this?
I watch it while I'm dieting
The squelchy chewing sounds are unpleasant, so I'd be glad if mukbang content died down
Guess they're still just treated as a sideshow after all
It's not like the food these big-eaters save by holding back would actually get shipped off to some poor village
They're digesting it fine, so they're in good health (just obese)
A lot of them end up with diabetes
Even Terunofuji, the retired sumo wrestler, had diabetes
So you're eating along with the puke-food?
Competitive eating is an enemy of the planet
Even the ones who genuinely enjoy it start stuffing themselves even more for the ad revenue
The whole setup where competitive eating equals a paycheck is the real problem
Background and Key Points of the Debate
According to the original article, the target of the crackdown is content related to “eating disorders and binge eating” broadly — it isn’t the mukbang format itself that’s the issue, but rather staged elements like vomiting after eating huge amounts, or secretly disposing of food while pretending to eat it. In the thread, posters worried about the health risks of binge-and-purge behavior and those welcoming the tighter rules were prominent, but others pointed to viewer demand (such as vicariously satisfying cravings while dieting), making this a topic that doesn’t resolve into a simple right-or-wrong. One easy point of confusion: the “mukbang” genre itself hasn’t been banned outright — the restrictions specifically target staging or content that could promote eating disorders. Whether Japanese mukbang personalities and TV programs will be held to the same standard remains unclear, since neither the article nor the thread addresses it at this point.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “YouTube’s wave of mukbang video demonetizations stirs controversy — 5 problems that were there all along“.
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